Happy Thanksgiving! 2017 brought a lot to be thankful for! Like a good crop year and a drought free summer. We are thankful for our healthy and productive herd of 557. We are thankful for the new anaerobic digester engine, bringing more green energy to the grid and soon more recycled heat to our homes … Read more
The Boston Globe By Lucy M. Casale| November 20, 2017 Go homemade for the holidays with favorite dessert recipes from friends and family of the Cabot Creamery Co-operative. Turtle Cheesecake Serves 12 Cabot farmer Denise Barstow of Longview Farm in Hadley, Mass. describes the holidays in her house with one word: loud. “It isn’t a … Read more
Ingredients Crust ingredients: 2 sleeves of Oreos, crushed ¼ cup Cabot Salted Butter, melted 1 teaspoon cinnamon Filling ingredients: 2¼ pounds Cabot Cream Cheese (4½ -8 ounce packages) softened 1 cup light brown sugar ¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon corn syrup ¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon corn starch 1 tablespoon vanilla 3 whole farm fresh eggs 1 egg … Read more
Thanksgiving is only days away and farmers and bakers alike are looking forward to spending time together…..not at work. We may see each other every day, but in that time we are making business decisions, baking cookies, feeding cows, discussing what needs to be done next. And yes the farmers still work on Thanksgiving Day, … Read more
Country Folks By Laura Rodley At Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley, MA they serve their own beef as hamburgers on their special Burger Night at Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery from May through September. The meat contains no antibiotics, steroids or hormones. The farm store is the only place anyone can buy the beef that … Read more
Mass Realty By Jake Levin Since 1806, the Barstow family has been just as lively as the farm it tends to. Located along rural Route 47 in Hadley, Mass., Barstow’s has been looking forward for the past 211 years. The farm encompasses the very best of the world of agriculture both past and present thanks to … Read more
November is Peanut Butter Lovers Month and boy to do we have the stuff for you! STEEM is caffeinated peanut butter locally made. If you need an energy boost in the afternoon but don’t want to settle for an energy drink or ran out of time to stop by the Barstow’s Drive Thru this morning … Read more
Get your Thanksgiving Pie orders in by Monday, November 20! Visit us, call us at 413-586-2142, or email us at info@barstowslongviewfarm.com to place your order. Orders over $25 must be held with a credit card or paid in advance of pick up. We are hoping you can pick up your pie before noon on Wednesday … Read more
Barstow’s Longview Farm produces about 20,000 lbs of milk – or 2,325 gallons – every day. That’s a lot of milk! But where does it all go? The Barstow Farm does not have a milk processing plant. There is too much milk for us to process all by ourselves and having bottled milk would add … Read more
You can find local Hadley grown butternut squash covered in local Hadley soil on our porch. But what’s with the dirt? Squash won’t last as long once they are washed, so we figured to offer the freshest produce, we’d keep it in its, err, natural state! Eat the season, eat local, support your local landscape!